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Linux 5.9 Dropping The Unicore 32-bit RISC Architecture  Phoronix

BootHole Vulnerability In Secure Boot Affects Windows and Linux Devices  Cyber Security News

Libinput 1.16 is out this morning as the newest feature update to this input handling library used by the Linux desktop on both X11 and Wayland...

Most POSIX systems come with GNU bc, an arbitrary precision numeric processing language. Its syntax is similar to C, but it also supports interactive execution of statements and processing data from standard in (stdin). For that reason, it's often the answer to the question, "How do I do math in the Linux shell?" This style of response is common online:

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Natural language processing (NLP) is a specialized field for analysis and generation of human languages. Human languages, rightly called natural language, are highly context-sensitive and often ambiguous in order to produce a distinct meaning. (Remember the joke where the wife asks the husband to "get a carton of milk and if they have eggs, get six," so he gets six cartons of milk because they had eggs.) NLP provides the ability to comprehend natural language input and produce natural language output appropriately.

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The meteoric rise of containerization and microservices has been necessary to meet the growing demand for applications, but getting it right means overcoming some critical network orchestration challenges. Out of the complexities that developers of cloud-native applications face, strategically utilizing Kubernetes ingress controllers is among the most difficult components to understand—and among the most important.

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How to use Proton with Steam in GNU/Linux for AAA Gaming  Ghacks Technology News

Linux 5.8 Release – Main Changes, Arm, MIPS, and RISC-V Architectures  CNX Software

Linus Torvalds Releases the “Really Big” Linux Kernel 5.8  Softpedia News

This guide will walk you through the instructions to install PostgreSQL 12 relational and object-oriented database management systems and pgAdmin4, a commonly-used web-based PostgreSQL database server administration tool. We will show how to install

Windows Grows as Linux Declines a Little in July 2020  Softpedia News

IO_uring Has Many Improvements Set To Go Into Linux 5.9  Phoronix

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In addition to the many outlined changes expected for Linux 5.9, here's another big one: lots of IO_uring work for enhancing this modern Linux I/O interface...

Linus Torvalds was debating up to the last minutes today of whether to opt for Linux 5.8-rc8 or go ahead and release Linux 5.8 as stable... He opted for Linux 5.8 splashing down on this historic day...

Linux 5.8 Released With AMD Energy Driver, F2FS LZO-RLE, IBM POWER10 Booting  Phoronix

DragonFlyBSD has been generally working out well for AMD Zen systems sans a few motherboard specific woes, but now is getting even better thanks to importing some new drivers from FreeBSD...

DragonFlyBSD Pulls In AMD Temperature Driver, SMN Support From FreeBSD  Phoronix

Hacking: Networking and Security (2 Books in 1: Hacking with Kali Linux & Networking for Beginners)  Digital Market News

Facebook engineer Song Liu has sent out a set of patches for "BPF_PROG_TYPE_USER" as a new BPF type for the Linux kernel focused on better supporting user programs...